Highlights: Green and red clips add colour to this boy’s rose (Picture: Solent) Anyone who has ever fumbled around the office looking for a paper clip will be filled with envy. Artist Pietro D’Angelo ...

I love being able to repurpose things I have lying around the house, and my collection of paper clips just got a bunch of new assignments after I learned about all these great ways to use them. When ...

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

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Do you feel disorganized? Like your life just isn’t coming together the way you always planned? Well in 1867, a man named Samuel Faye patented a little invention that might be just what you need. It’s ...

The paper clip might seem like an ordinary object in your stationery drawer, but its simplicity hides a surprisingly rich history and wide range of uses. Designed to hold sheets of paper together, ...

Ever been fiddling around at your desk in the office, wondering if some grander structure might come from an assemblage of paper clips, pens, and binder clips? You’re not alone. Let your mind ...

People have fastened sheets of paper together more or less permanently ever since the Chinese invented the stuff in the first or second century A.D. Yet according to the Early Office Museum, the first ...